Sentences with phrase «human habitat»

And a great deal of land has been taken over for human habitat and industrial purposes.
To rethink the way streets are used, call attention to the need for urban parks, and improve the quality of urban human habitat... at least until the meter runs out!
Using two recycled shipping containers and off - site prefabrication of interiors and building components, this «Two - Tree House» by Tel - Aviv's Golany Architects is carefully constructed around two mature Jerusalem pines on the site, allowing a simple merging of human habitat with the existing trees.
The Okarian's trek across the Arctic offers a ray of hope: Spores might not make it very far from human habitats.
Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs muzzled their way into human habitats at least 15,000 years ago.
The robot could be sent into orbit to spruce up the International Space Station, for instance, or help construct the first human habitat on Mars.
The creek is heartening to see because it shows the ability of wild things to fill in gaps and thrive amid some of the most heavily trammeled human habitat if we leave just a little room for nature — what Thoreau called «the swamp on the edge of town» (as pointed out to me by the «renegade naturalist,» Daniel Botkin).
But to read and «feel», day after day after day so much of what is going wrong in terms of species extinction and non human habitat destruction, the result of our doing, well?
He has for many years been envisioning human habitat that would make all services and amenities accessible without the use of private automobiles.
SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor.
The beetle mimic cockroach, Diploptera punctata, is much smaller and is not considered a pest around human habitats.
The space agency is developing gigantic supersonic parachutes and lightweight, saucer - like inflatable «decelerators» that will slow the descent of heavy gear through the thin Martian atmosphere, thus allowing large objects — such as human habitat modules — to make it to the planet's surface in one piece.
Surviving Mars is all about setting up the first colony on our neighbouring planet, starting with corporate sponsorship to help your drones set the groundwork for human habitat domes.
Lunar lava tubes have been discovered [5] and have been studied as possible human habitats, providing natural shielding from radiation.
Serving as the codename for Take On Mars» manned mission to Mars, Expedition One enables people to explore the Red Planet, and establish a self - sufficient human habitat.
In his first solo exhibition at Flashpoint, Tolman examines our contemporary human habitat to reveal the peculiarities of the individual in relation to the larger culture.
Finally, 3 - D printing could mean human habitats expand into difficult - to - reach, remote, and resource - poor environments due to the decreased need for onsite labor and materials.
How should we address the perfidies of an industry that has set the stage for billions of deaths and the destruction of human habitat?
Poor agricultural practices expanded the need for human habitat, felling forests and causing wars for more land resources.
If those bugs had expanded into human habitats, he would expect at least some of them to still be susceptible to the insecticide.
At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.
More than any cultural figure of his generation, Reed perpetuated an awareness of the classical tradition's enduring role as the indispensable means for improving the human habitat — starting with the city, man's greatest creation.
More than any cultural figure of his generation, Reed perpetuated an awareness of the classical tradition's enduring role as the indispensable means for improving the human habitat... Continue Reading»
The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.
As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat
And it is a mass extinction entirely caused by the relentless expansion of human habitat and agriculture, as well as human domination of the natural systems — such as the climate — that make life possible.
As a realm of scientific investigation called ecology, it has assumed urgent importance in the maintenance of the human habitat.
Most natural ecosystems are heavily affected by changes to the human habitat, climate change or invasive species.
The Deep Space Gateway brings the dream of a human habitat in orbit about the moon and a stepping stone to Mars is now a step closer
To figure out a safe distance, scientists need to know how well Earth microbes would survive on Mars in the first place, and how far those organisms would spread from a human habitat.
This settlement existed from approximately 7,100 to 6,000 BC and is considered to be the most significant site in the Near East that affords any insight into the development of human habitats.
Or it may be piled on top of a human habitat as a radiation shield.
«Our findings have direct implications for humans because tobacco toxins are often present in human habitats,» Martins - Green said.
The dream of a human habitat in orbit about the moon came a step closer on September 27, when NASA and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) signed up to a common vision for future human exploration.
This human habitat is both familiar and charmingly creative, as it resembles Los Angeles in style with a futuristic flare.
Ganske predicts analogous setbacks within the history of the distant future, that we will always be replacing old technologies with new ones, and that any human habitat ultimately becomes a collage of time periods.
The works inside are modestly scaled riffs on structures endemic to human habitats.
Around the 1970s, some government agencies began adopting «let it burn policies» if human habitat was not threatened.
In this book, ecologists, conservationists, lawyers, and atmospheric scientists detail the benefits of alternative market - based systems for reducing and sequestering the carbon emissions currently threatening the planet with global warming and the destruction of animal and human habitat.
With over 1,000 photographs, Shelter is a classic celebrating the imagination, resourcefulness, and exuberance of human habitat.
So one enters this human habitat through the ground before being taken up by a spiral staircase towards the daylight and into a room dominated by white.
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